Indonesia's Pakistan Agrees On 7 MoUs, Prabowo Invites PM Sharif To Jakarta
JAKARTA - President Prabowo Subianto officially invited Pakistani Prime Minister (PM) Shehbaz Sharif to visit Indonesia as a form of reply after his 2-day visit in Islamabad on 8-9 December 2025.
In a joint statement session after a bilateral meeting at the official residence of PM Pakistan (PM House), Islamabad, quoted by Antara, Wednesday, December 10, President Prabowo also invited other Pakistani leaders to visit Indonesia.
"I officially invite Prime Minister Sharif to visit Indonesia, as well as other Pakistani leaders to come to Indonesia, to see together, and may provide us with clues as well as insights to jointly strengthen cooperation between the two countries," President Prabowo told PM Sharif.
President Prabowo, for the first time, visited Pakistan and visited PM House to lead a bilateral meeting with PM Sharif. In a meeting called by the two leaders as a productive meeting, the two discussed various issues, including increasing cooperation in the fields of trade and investment, education, especially vocational, cultural and health education.
In a series of events at PM House, the two leaders also witnessed the exchange of cooperation agreement documents and memorandum of understanding (MoU) for cooperation agreed by Indonesia and Pakistan. The seven cooperation documents include health, education, scholarship assistance, certification and development of halal products, archives, and prevention and eradication of drug trafficking.
President Prabowo and PM Sharif, in their respective statements, revealed that the two countries agreed to balance the trade balance, which is currently still dominated by palm oil imports from Indonesia.
President Prabowo, in front of PM Sharif, said he had instructed his ranks of ministers to find concrete ways to balance the trade balance between the two countries.
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Meanwhile, PM Sharif revealed that the trade value of the two countries reached 4.5 billion US dollars, but 90 percent were dominated by palm oil imports from Indonesia.
He said there are several strategies to boost Pakistan's exports to Indonesia, including through exports of agricultural products, information technology (IT), and other sectors that have not been widely worked on.